[DML] Re: VIN Conflict (more, long)

["David Teitelbaum" <jtrealty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

When trying to interpet dates you must be aware that in Europe it is
very common to go Date-Month-Year. In America it is Month-Date-Year. I
know they were working for the American market primaraly but you have
to wonder if they fell back into old habits and transposed the Month
and the Date. Easy to figure out if the first number group is larger
than 12, not so easy otherwise. The date might also be the order date,
not the actual construction date, you have to wonder if ALL the doors
could be built on the same day. It could also be that all the doors
built that week had the same date so they knew who was building doors
that batch/week. These are the kind of questions it would be great to
be able to ask former workers from the factory.
David Teitelbaum
vin 10757


--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "James Espey" <james@xxxx> wrote:
> Mike,
> 
> Does it say 8/1/82 or 1/8/82? The former would actually be January
> 8th, 1982. We have VIN 17144 here (12144 under the headliners) and
> written on that door is 18/2/82 - Feb 18th 1982.
> 
> In your case, Jan 8th was a Friday and Feb 8th (more likely) was a
> Monday. Of the cars that I have seen over the here at DMC, all 10XXX
> and 15XXX cars have Dec 81 dates under the headliners, and 11XXX and
> 1






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